Part of the Global Plot to Expose Moonbats, conspiracy nuts, and anti-Semites, especially the Jewish anti-Semitic variety.
The leftwing Neo-Nazi web magazine Counterpunch has described Plaut thus: "One of the most pernicious writers is Steven Plaut, a man who could be thought of as Israel's Daniel Pipes."

Friday, December 14, 2007

The Persecution of David Ohana by Ben Gurion University

1. The Persecution of David Ohana by Ben Gurion University

AH, Ben Gurion University. The Bir Zeit of the Negev. The school in which turning out leftist NewSpeak counts as "research" and "scholarship" and where one can get tenure for mass producing anti-Israel hate propaganda The university that has never initiated any disciplinary actions against Neve Gordon, Oren Yiftachel, Lev Grinberg, or its legions of campus fulltime anti-Israel propagandists, even when they are involved in criminality.

But Ben Gurion University has long had it in for writer and Moroccan-born historian David Ohana. Left of center, Ohana . who teaches in the Jewish history department at Ben Gurion University . is just not Left enough for many in the Ivory Kremlin (see his ideas at

Starting in 2005, Ohana was accused of sexual harassment by five women (including secretaries and cleaning staff) at the university. They said he had said graphic things to them about sex. One said he gave her a kiss.

Except the facts were not so clear. A number of faculty members at BGU came out in SUPPORT of Ohana, signing a petition demanding he NOT be disciplined, many claiming he was being harassed by the women because one of them had had a work conflict with Ohana about something unrelated to sex, who had then recruited her friends to "get him." (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/911615.html

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BGU is so politically correct and intolerant of political incorrectness that it is hard to believe that any of its professors would stick their necks out to defend someone accused of harassing women unless they were convinced he was truly innocent. Sexual harassment on most PC campuses is a modern-day Inquisition, where the faculty member is guilty until he can be proven innocent, and faculty members are well aware of the perils of even being accused. (This is not to make light of ACTUAL sexual harassment on campus, just pointing out that false accusations of such can be used maliciously and vindictively to ruin careers.)

While most professors at BGU taking a stand on the matter BACKED Ohana, a minority, led by Neve Gordon and some radical feminists, demanded Ohana's head. Remember, this is the same university in which the only non-Lefist member of the political science department was fired for refusing to stick to the official anti-Israel political line there! Ohana in Haaretz accused his campus accusers of "political persecution" (June 29, 2006).

Meanwhile, the BGU disciplinary committee chewed on the case for more than 6 months, unsure of what to make of all the evidence. Obviously, it was hardly cut and dry against Ohana. Numerous faculty members testified in Ohana's behalf.

Eventually the disciplinary committee (on October 10, 2007), which consisted of three professors (two of them women), found Ohana INNOCENT! They said that in some cases the accusations were simply false, the women accusing Ohana deemed liars by the judges (http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/911856.html ), while in others they thought Ohana deserved the benefit of the doubt. That meant the judges did not approve of some of his behavior but saw insufficient evidence against him to convict him of harassment.

Naturally the political correctness stromtroopers at BGU and elsewhere hit the ceiling. The very same people who spent months demanding that Far-Leftist Haim "Divide-Jerusalem-Now" Ramon be cleared and returned to his nice warm cabinet seat after HE was convicted in a real court of law for sexual harassment were outraged that David Ohana was being allowed to walk with his head still attached.

So a few days after he was cleared, Ohana was "convicted" by his campus crusaders of "unbecoming conduct," meaning exercising his freedom of speech in a manner that included some expressions of poor taste. Both the President and Rector of BGU, people who long endorsed Neve Gordon's attempt to use the Israeli court system to suppress freedom of speech, backed the "conviction" of Ohana.

This qwwk, Haaretz (http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/934067.html) reports that the same BGU campus authorities that did nothing when Neve Gordon was arrested for interfering with the IDF's anti-terror operations have decided to dock Ohana of three months pay. This for being INNOCENT of sexual harassment!! They also issued a strong reprimand of him that will effectively prevent him forever from holding senior campus administrative or leadership positions.

U.S. government officials authorized giving nearly $1 million in foreign aid to a Palestinian university with links to the terrorist group Hamas, despite vetting the school eight times for ties to terrorism, according to a government audit.

The audit concluded that the vetting process, initiated by the U.S. Agency for International Development and conducted by the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, found no "derogatory information" on the Islamic University in Gaza between 2002 and 2006 -- even after Hamas claimed a parliamentary majority in Palestinian elections in 2006. Several times, university officials certified that they provided no material support for terrorism.

A companion audit found that USAID's operations in Gaza and the West Bank have largely implemented policies to keep future aid out of terrorist hands.

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) asked USAID's inspector general to conduct the audits after a Washington Times report detailed some of the aid payments to Islamic University earlier this year. He said in an interview Tuesday that the failure to detect terrorist ties at the school suggested "either incompetence or a complete breakdown of the vetting system as run by the State Department."

The U.S. designated Hamas a terrorist organization in 1997. Hamas' prime minister sits on the Islamic University's board of trustees. In January, Palestinian security forces seized assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades during a raid of the university.

U.S. law prohibits transactions with terrorists or their supporters. A USAID audit last month, also requested by Kirk, concluded the government has inadequate controls in place to stop foreign aid from flowing to terrorists -- and that USAID had funded terrorist-linked groups on at least two occasions.

One of the follow-up audits concludes that USAID "did not always follow applicable federal laws" when approving aid to the University. That includes several occasions where grant recipients did not receive a notice detailing their responsibility to avoid using aid dollars to support terrorism.

Most of those occasions came between 2003 and 2005, before USAID implemented new anti-terrorist funding policies, the audit concluded.

In an appendix to the audit, USAID officials disputed any implication that they violated laws. The number of times the university was vetted -- and the lack of any red flags -- along with the university's anti-terrorism certifications "indicate compliance with the law," West Bank and Gaza Mission Director Howard Sumka wrote.

3. Muslim helps Jews attacked on New York subwayCNN International ^ | December 12, 2007 | Nkechi NnejiPosted on 12/12/2007 7:41:19 PM PST by lonestar67A Muslim man jumped to the aid of three Jewish subway riders after they were attacked by a group of young people who objected to one of the Jews saying "Happy Hanukkah," a spokeswoman for the three said Wednesday.The New York Police Department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating Friday's incident on the Q train.Friday's altercation on the Q train began when somebody yelled out "Merry Christmas," to which rider Walter Adler responded, "Happy Hanukkah," said Toba Hellerstein."Almost immediately, you see the look in this guy's face like I've called his mother something," Adler told CNN affiliate WABC.Two women who were with a group of 10 rowdy people then began to verbally assault Adler's companions with anti-Semitic language, Hellerstein said.One member of the group allegedly yelled, "Oh, Hanukkah. That's the day that the Jews killed Jesus," she said.When Adler tried to intercede, a male member of the group punched him, she said.Another passenger, Hassan Askari -- a Muslim student from Bangladesh -- came to Adler's aid, and the group began physically and verbally assaulting him, Hellerstein said.

4. Ehud NeBARAKnezzar:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124565Barak Agreed To Hand Temple Mount & Yesha to Arabs in 2000 Talks (IsraelNN.com) According to a document brought out of mothballs seven years after it was signed, Defense Minister Ehud Barak - then Prime Minister of Israel - agreed to transfer the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, to Arab sovereignty.